- KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN: William Hurt was named best actor at the Cannes Film Festival for his performance in this story that explores the relationship between two cell mates and the story about a movie that Hurt relates. Also starring Raul Julia and Sonia Braga. (R)

- MARIE: A TRUE STORY: Sissy Spacek stars as a woman of integrity who, at great personal risk, takes a stand against political corruption. Also starring Jeff Daniels. (PG-13)

- A PRIVATE FUNCTION: A British comedy about stolen pig that becomes a meal ticket to a socially elite function, starring Maggie Smith, Michael Palin and a pig named Betty. (R)

- THE STUFF: Michael Moriarty plays an industrial spy hired to get to the bottom of a new yogurt-like dessert that becomes a public menace (R)

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S T I L L S H O W I N G

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- AFTER HOURS - 3 stars: From directing to cinematography to casting, a dazzling bit of movie-making, starring Griffin Dunne as an amiable, but dorky, computer operator who encounters a night of bizarre adventures when he's lured into Manhattan's SoHo district. (R)

- AGNES OF GOD - 2 1/2 stars: Norman Jewison film boasts a top-flight cast, including Meg Tilly as a childlike novice accused of killing a baby she can't remember conceiving, Jane Fonda as the psychiatrist assigned to determine if she is mentally fit to stand trial and Anne Bancroft as her protective Mother Superior, but falls short in declaring its purpose. (PG-13)

- BACK TO THE FUTURE - 4 st ars: A comedy-adventure, produced by Steven Spielberg, about a high school senior (Michael J. Fox) thrust back in time to 1955, where he meets two other teens - his future parents. (PG)

- BETTER OFF DEAD - 3 stars: A whacky and imaginative teen comedy that looks at the typical middle American family through the surrealistic funny glasses of writer-director "Savage" Steve Holland. Starring John Cusack. (PG)

- COCOON - 3 stars: Ron Howard directs a stellar cast, including Steve Guttenberg, Don Ameche, Gwen Verdon and Maureen Stapleton, in a charming science-fantasy in which visitors from a distant galaxy share an adventure with a delightful group of elderly Earthlings who become their allies. (PG-13)

- COMMANDO - 1 star: A "cartoon" of relentless violence, placing little value on human life, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a retired commando forced back into action when his daughter is kidnapped by a brutal dictator his unit ousted years ago. (R)

- GHOSTBUSTERS - 3 stars: Who you gonna call? How about Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis in this madcap send-up of the horror film genre. They play parapsychologists intent on ridding New York and, specifically Sigourney Weaver's apartment, of poltergeists. (PG)

- INVASION U.S.A. - 1 star: Chuck Norris, as a retired government top intelligence operative who must return to action to fight off a foreign invasion, wastes his skill on a script that goes nowhere. (R)

- JAGGED EDGE - 2 stars: An open-and-shut courtroom drama starring Glenn Close in a convincing role as an attorney hired to defend a newspaper publisher (Jeff Bridges) accused of murdering his wealthy wife. (R)

- RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II - 2 1/2 stars: If you're looking for sheer sadism and explosive energy, John Rambo's (Sylvester Stallone) return to Vietnam on a mission to track down American POWs is probably the best Vietnam fantasy film to date. (R)

- REMO WILLIAMS: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS . . . - 2 stars : The first in what may be a series of action-adventures based on the "Destroyer" paper backs, with Fred Ward playing a New York cop who's trained for secret mission against the underworld, turns out to be a flawed mix of Rambo, Bond and Bruce Lee. Also starring Joel Grey and Wilford Brimley. (PG-13)

- SESAME STREET PRESENTS: FOLLOW THAT BIRD - 1 1/2 stars: When Big Bird finds moving into a birdhouse with a nice bird family of his own isn't what it's cracked up to be, his attempts to return to Sesame Street lead to adventures preschoolers will enjoy. (G)

- SILVER BULLET - 1 1/2 stars: Another misfire based on a Stephen King thriller about a small town that is terrorized by a blood-thirsty werewolf. Starring Gary Busey and Corey Haim. (R)

- ST. ELMO'S FIRE - 1 star: This group of materialistic young graduates facing the trauma of post-college months are so pathetic, you'll want to take up a collection to send them back to the safe haven of graduate school.

- SWEET DREAMS - 2 1/2 stars: The real "sweet dream" in this story of the legendary Patsy Cline, played by Jessica Lange, is Ed Harris, who turns in a magnificent performance as the country singer's romantic but self-destructive husband. (PG-13)

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M I D N I G H T M O V I E S

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- Playing at the General Cinema Lehigh Valley Mall is THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (R), THE WARRIORS (R), Pink Floyd's THE WALL (R), BAD BOYS (R), SPLATTER UNIVERSITY (R), THE BREAKFAST CLUB (R), STEPHEN KING'S SILVER BULLET (R) and NATIONAL LAMPOON'S EUROPEAN VACATION (PG).

- Playing at 11:30 p.m. Thursday at the Kutztown Strand is BLUES BROTHERS (R).

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C H I L D R E N ' S M A T I N E E

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- Playing at 1 p.m. tomorrow and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Roxy in Northampton is BENJI (G).